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alexandargyurovon Cursor 2.0

separate projects, working on multiple projects at once, I find context switching is a lot easier than having multiple agents on 1 project

alexandargyurovon The Bulgarian Computer's Global Reach: On Victor Petrov's "Balkan Cyberia"

For anyone who's in Sofia, there is a meetup with Victor Petrov this Saturday:

https://axle.events/events/prezentaciya-na-balkan-cyberia-c7...

alexandargyurovon Micro Front End Architecture for Mobile Web Apps – Ionic Portals

Thoughts on Micro-Frontends?

alexandargyurovon Show HN: I built a database GUI with ChatGPT integration

Doesn't seem to work with a Supabase Postgres DB.

alexandargyurovon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2023)

Pre-seed startup to join a team of 4.

Searching for 2x senior frontend engineers, equity and salary - ideally experienced with NextJS and Supabase.

Searching for 1x VP of Design - senior position leading our design philosophy, starting with our UX and creating the design pattern. Closing working with the team and interviewing our beta users to create our brand and design identify.

Fully remote but monthly visits to our office, in Sofia, Bulgaria. Expensed.

email: alex@axyles.com

alexandargyurovon Beating OpenAI CLIP with 100x less data and compute

Am I the only one who is very confused what this is?

alexandargyurovon ChatGPT acts as if it has strong ethical intuitions,though it says it hasn’t any [pdf]

Perfect timing: I just tweeted how you can get ChatGPT to be several ethical versions of itself. It pretends to be human, ChatGPT, ChatGPT (debug mode), and OpenAI's opinion. Great fun :)

https://twitter.com/alexgyurov/status/1615409643475599361?s=...

alexandargyurovon MelonJS – a fresh and lightweight JavaScript game engine

Check out https://heroiclabs.com/opensource/

alexandargyurovon Show HN: Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas

alexandargyurovon Did insurance fire brigades let uninsured buildings burn?

Video: I was wrong (and so was everyone)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wif1EAgEQKI

alexandargyurovon Show HN: Campus FM – live stream college and independent radio stations

Nice :) Long live radio! Check out https://latenight.fm/

alexandargyurovon Cryptocurrency scam: Man swindled out of pension and life savings

I would rather have a book showcasing the absurdity and informing people than to not have a book. It also doesn't have to be linked to capitalism, the podcast is free and can be listened by anyone. I'm sure the e-book won't cost that much either.

alexandargyurovon Cryptocurrency scam: Man swindled out of pension and life savings

If you'd like to hear the incredible story of the OneCoin scam, the biggest cryptocurrency scam in history to date (estimated over 14 billion USD), Jamie Bartlett created a fantastic podcast, The Missing Cryptoqueen. An 9-episode series investigating Dr. Ruja Ignatova and OneCoin. Soon-to-be released book as well.

alexandargyurovon EU vote to ban all sales of combustion engine vehicles by 2035

Bulgarian here, mentioned in a lower thread as well, it will mean the richer states just export their old (modern) combustion engine cars to the Eastern countries.

Curious what you mean by "giving up" though?

alexandargyurovon EU vote to ban all sales of combustion engine vehicles by 2035

I'm with you as well, in cities that is, but I should still be able to do it at a racetrack or the long country roads where I won't offend people.

alexandargyurovon EU vote to ban all sales of combustion engine vehicles by 2035

Yep agree, countryside and private spaces will most likely be where ic cars live.

alexandargyurovon EU vote to ban all sales of combustion engine vehicles by 2035

Do you think there will be a ban on combustion engines completely in the future? Hearing the engine roar is something I will miss.

alexandargyurovon EU vote to ban all sales of combustion engine vehicles by 2035

Thank you, sums it up really nicely.

alexandargyurovon EU vote to ban all sales of combustion engine vehicles by 2035

I'm interested in the US-made car market. I don't know much but something on my todo list to learn. I've heard good things about the US making good cars

alexandargyurovon EU vote to ban all sales of combustion engine vehicles by 2035

Yeah, fair enough, same with washing machines and fridges. Toyota are good, old Land Rovers from about 1998 to early 2000s were built to last - now, not so much. The good thing is we can see which modern cars weren't built to last and not buy them :)

alexandargyurovon EU vote to ban all sales of combustion engine vehicles by 2035

Whatever spins the wheel

alexandargyurovon EU vote to ban all sales of combustion engine vehicles by 2035

If they're cheap and good we'll buy them :) Germans make *some* great cars

alexandargyurovon EU vote to ban all sales of combustion engine vehicles by 2035

The whole of Europe including the Eastern block? Good luck by 2035

alexandargyurovon LiveKit – Open source, high performance WebRTC infrastructure

Was a joy to use on a side-project I was working on. Worked great with Svelte. Deploying a local dev server is easy too.

alexandargyurovon Actual is going open-source

I have to fill out every transaction manually? No Open Banking integration? :/

alexandargyurovon Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

If you like the game Teardown, and wish it had multiplayer support, I am building a server-based multiplayer mod for it. It's written in C# (client) and Golang (server) and using Nakama as an open-source game server. Just working on this in my free time, wouldn't mind an extra hand!

Discord alexandargyurov#1220

alexandargyurovon DuckDuckGo's daily search queries surpassed 100M, a 47% increase

I presume this is the cause (not entirely) of their advertising campaign they did in London recently. Couldn't find a source only a reddit post[0]. They were on buses, the underground and in train stations.

Any other city recently get them as well?

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/duckduckgo/comments/qyss8g/spotted_...

alexandargyurovon Ask HN: Software Engineer hitting 40: what's next?

That's pretty similar to London, I wasn't aware Munich had got so expensive!

alexandargyurovon Ask HN: Software Engineer hitting 40: what's next?

Imagine that (£70k senior), but instead of somewhere else in the UK, it's somewhere in Europe.

In Munich, Germany (one of the priciest cities in Germany), the overall average rental price is €700 for a one-bed apartment[0]. Compared that to London, a one-bedroom apartment rent is going to cost you over £1000! €1178.48 euros![1]

In Eastern Europe, you can have a very good quality of life for even cheaper. The only problem is the language barrier.

I live in Sofia, Bulgaria, and pay €340 euros for a 2-bedroom flat in a pretty nice area of the city. A coffee costs around 2 лв (about €1), average pint around 3.80 лв (about €2). With a London software engineering salary, I save a drastic amount of money compared to London, and can usually afford to go to more restaurants, bars and outdoor activities (Love that I can ski just 20 mins away in the mountains!)

I assume it would be similar for people who can work remotely for a San Francisco company but live in a different state?

[0] https://www.expatrio.com/living-germany/costs-living-germany...

[1] https://www.london.gov.uk/what-we-do/housing-and-land/improv...

alexandargyurovon Show HN: Tell YouTube ads to fuck off

I would recommend using Channel Whitelist[0] to enable ads on creators which you would like to support.

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youtube-channel-wh...

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-chann...